&sq=&lang=&file=File:This_Week_magazine_cover_Sept_24_1939.jpg) McClelland Barclay cover for This Week (September 24, 1939) | |
| Editor | Marie Mattingly Meloney (1935–1943) |
|---|---|
| Categories | news magazine, fiction |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Joseph P. Knapp |
| Total circulation (1963) | 14.6 million |
| First issue | February 24, 1935 |
| Final issue | November 2, 1969 |
| Company | Publication Corporation[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City, New York |
| Language | English |
This Week was a nationally syndicated Sunday magazine supplement that was included in American newspapers between 1935 and 1969. In the early 1950s, it accompanied 37 Sunday newspapers.[2] A decade later, at its peak in 1963, This Week was distributed with the Sunday editions of 42 newspapers for a total circulation of 14.6 million.
It was the oldest syndicated newspaper supplement in the United States when it went out of business in 1969.[3] It was distributed with the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), the Boston Herald, and others. Magazine historian Phil Stephensen-Payne noted,
- "It grew from a circulation of four million in 1935 to nearly 12 million in 1957, far outstripping other fiction-carrying weeklies such as Collier's, Liberty and even The Saturday Evening Post (all of which eventually folded)."[4]
- ^ "Crowell Collier planning merger; offers $33 million stock to Publication Corp., Printers". The New York Times. January 10, 1968. Retrieved April 23, 2016 – via timesmachine.nytimes.com.
- ^ McKie, Roy (October 2011). "100 years of illustration and design". giam.typepad.com.
- ^ Raymont, Henry (August 14, 1969). "This Week Magazine ends publication Nov. 2". The New York Times. p. 27.
- ^ Stephensen-Payne, Phil. "Data 393". philsp.com. Galactic Central Publications.